What's your favorite text editor for non-programming general text?

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casioculture ([email protected]) wrote:
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: So far the best text editor I found of the many I tried over the past
: two days is the Syn Text Editor. http://syn.sourceforge.net/
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I use ED, a freeware editor patterned after the VMS EDT editor. ED is
available for DOS, OS/2, Windows (from a DOS box), VMS, and almost all
dialects of unix.

From:

http://clio.rice.edu/EDstuff/ED_Overview.txt

"...ED will:

o Let you edit files on other hosts, if you are connected to a network.
o Display many files on the screen simultaneously.
o Save key definitions and other editor settings on command.
o Let you mark your spot in a file, and return to it easily.
o Let you put tab stops wherever you want them.
o Let you use wildcards in search strings.
o Let you redefine the keys on your terminal.
o Let you say things like: ED *.dat, if you want to edit all .dat files.
o Allow you to teach it how to talk to different terminals.
o Calculate the value of algebraic expressions that include math
functions.
o Sort a file or a portion of a file.
o Let you read the network news.

ED is free software, see the file COPYING for details.

ED is available from

ftp://clio.rice.edu/pub/

If you need a particular binary version and don't have a compiler to build
it - send me a note. I've got access to a wide range of systems..."

The "me" is the author, Charles Sandmann.

--Jerry Leslie
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Message-ID said:
So far the best text editor I found of the many I tried over the past
two days is the Syn Text Editor. http://syn.sourceforge.net/
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For a true windows notepad replacement as the default text reader and
for simple text editing, I like MetaPad.

When I need more text formatting capabilities or basic HTML coding,
but don't need a full-blown word processor or WYSIWYG HTML editor, I
like NoteTab Light.

Links to both can be found at:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005TEXT.php

Ron May
 
Ron said:
For a true windows notepad replacement as the default text reader and
for simple text editing, I like MetaPad.

When I need more text formatting capabilities or basic HTML coding,
but don't need a full-blown word processor or WYSIWYG HTML editor, I
like NoteTab Light.

Links to both can be found at:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005TEXT.php

Ron May
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Okay I stopped using syn text editor because it doesn't support soft
wrapping (i.e. wrapping in editor - as opposed to hard wrapping, which
is in print). But I found a nice application that's hardly mentioned -
Prolix 32.

http://www.kobayashi.com/prolix.html

It supports soft wrapping, autobackup, and has none of the programming
clutter. I think this will probably be my notepad replacement.
 
Ross said:
Mine is Edxor http://freezip.cjb.net/freeware/
After selecting some text you can wipe non-ascii, delete blank lines,
sort, and 19 other options.
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Edxor is my default. It does have a glitch-
Find does not always find,
Search/Replace does not always replace.

Author is helpful, can't verify that.

Do you see it?

Mike Sa
 
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